In culling through hundreds of news stories every week, Techwire comes across some interesting reads that don't quite fit our template for a full story, but which might be of interest to our readers. Here are a few links that we thought were worth a click:
— The challenges are similar for government and private-sector recruiters: How can you land the right candidate for a key cybersecurity position, when simply throwing more money at her or him isn't an option?
— Artificial intelligence and chatbots are among the tech advances that more state and local governments are using as a way to allow residents to easily find and access government services online. Now a Microsoft solution architect has come up with "How to Build a Bot in Under 3 Minutes." Interesting stuff.
— The best CIOs either have the ability to see what's just over the horizon — or to surround themselves with others who do. Here are five enterprise technologies that innovative CIOs are embracing.
— Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton weighs in with a recommendation on how the Internet should be regulated in light of the recent Facebook disclosures about users' data.
— And in a different take on big tech, here's another view about regulation, this one from a libertarian point of view.
— After Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent two days being grilled on Capitol Hill about data privacy and accusations of censorship, his company has announced that it won't fight a proposed California ballot initiative that would limit the sale of individuals' data.
